Editorial Policies

SECTION POLICIES

• Language and society
• Issues in grammar
• Phonetics and Phonology
• Lexicology and lexicography
• Studies in etymology
• Linguistic data processing
• Linguistic aspects of Bible translation
• Bible translation and minority languages
• Linguistic aspects of translation
• Language sketches
• Legacy papers
• Language contact
• Ethnolinguistics
• Dialectology
• Mother-tongue texts
• Reviews
• Recent events

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

Two issues per year.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

All articles published in the journal are open access and are freely available for anyone to read. The open access policy contributes to the global exchange of knowledge.

Articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) 

PEER-REVIEW

1. All materials submitted to the editorial office are selected on the basis of anonymous (double-blind) independent peer review process and the decision of the editorial board of the journal.
2. Submitted materials that correspond to the relevant topics of the journal are generally reviewed within three months from the date of submission.
3. The editorial board makes a decision (to approve, to reject, to revise and resubmit) based on the reviewers’ comments. The decision of the editorial board and the reviews are sent to the authors in electronic form.
4. In case of “revise and resubmit” decision, the revised version undergoes a new round of reviewing and is accepted for publication if the previous shortcomings are eliminated.
5. The editorial committee will inform article contributors about approximately how long it should take for their articles to be reviewed.

PUBLISHING ETHICS

The Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement of the journal “Rodnoy Yazyk. Linguistic journal” are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct guidelines available at www.publicationethics.org, and requirements for peer-reviewed journals, elaborated by the Elsevier Publishing House (in accordance with international ethical rules of scientific publications).

Editorial board:

• are accountable and should take responsibility for everything they publish;
• hould make fair and unbiased decisions independent of commercial considerations, and should ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process;
• should guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct;
• should pursue issues involving reviewer and editorial misconduct;
• should make it clear to peer reviewers and authors what is expected of them;
• should have appropriate policies in place for handling editorial conflicts of interest.

Authors:

• may submit papers without incurring any fees for submission or eventual publication if their work is accepted;
• should submit papers only on work that has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and that complies with all relevant legislation;
• should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation;
• should provide references to support the claims and ideas presented in their work;
• should endeavour to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others;
• should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarized, has not been published previously, and is not under review elsewhere;
• should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work;
• should ensure that the authorship accurately reflects individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting;
• should disclose relevant funding sources and any existing or potential conflicts of interest;
• should include a statement of research ethics for research-based papers dealing with, or affecting, human participants. Studies dealing with minors are to be particularly scrutinized for such ethical procedures;
• should be allowed to retract, withdraw or amend their work if the content is proven in some manner to be false or misleading.

Publication ethics:

• all papers which are screened into the blind peer review system undergo a plagiarism check and cannot be sent out for review if found to include plagiarized content;
• during the review process, any instances of plagiarized content identified by reviewers and editors should be reported to the authors with evidence clearly given.

FOUNDERS

• Institute of Linguistics of Russian Academy of Sciences
• Institute for Bible Translation

AUTHOR FEES

All publications are free of charge for the authors.

DISCLOSURE AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

PLAGIARISM DETECTION

• All papers which are screened into the blind peer review system undergo a plagiarism check and cannot be sent out for review if found to include plagiarized content.
• During the review process, any instances of plagiarized content identified by reviewers and editors should be reported to the authors with evidence clearly given.

PREPRINT AND POSTPRINT POLICY

When submitting a manuscript, the author should confirm that the manuscript has not been published or has not been accepted for publication in another journal. When referring to an article published in “Rodnoy Yazyk”, the URL of the material posted on the official website of the journal should be given.

Articles previously posted by authors on their personal or public websites, including those not related to other publishing houses, cannot be submitted.